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What Went Wrong with News Coverage of the LA Fires

The Drain is a weekly roundup of environmental and climate news from Legal Planet.

When disaster strikes your town, you rely on journalists to help explain what happened and why. Last January, many of us in Los Angeles turned to The LA Times as unusual firestorms kicked up and ultimately destroyed parts of Altadena and Pacific Palisades. The LAT’s journalists and photojournalists did incredible coverage from lots of angles, …

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